Suunto Race Hands-On: Woah, 26 New Features Explained!

Suunto has just announced their newest watch, the Suunto Race. Here's everything you need to know about it! Buy the Suunto Race: (link helps support the channel, thanks!!!) This watch essentially takes the existing Suunto Vertical endurance-sports focused watch that was released this past spring, and gives it an AMOLED display. Alongside that, it gets an updated user interface and a number of new software features (which will also be ported back to a number of other existing Suunto watches). Oh – and for arguably the first time in recent memory, Suunto has absolutely slaughtered the competition on price here. The base unit is priced at just $449, including a sapphire crystal display and stainless steel case. - New 1.43” AMOLED touch screen, 466x466px at 1,000 nits - GPS battery life time starting at 40hrs in multiband/dual-frequency (and up to 120 hours in ‘Tour’ mode). - Standby/smartwatch battery life of 12 days in gesture-based display mode, or 7 days in always-on display mode - Adds digital crown - Adds new nightly HRV tracking, as well as HRV trending features - Adds Suunto Coach integration with aforementioned HRV tracking (will give guidance inclusive of HRV changes) - Adds workout planner to the watch itself (plus mobile app and TrainingPeaks) - Adds Training widget/watch face with TSB/CTLHRV - Adds new daily companion, new daily widgets, new mini widgets - Adds sleep stages shown on-watch - Adds ability to do multiple alarms (e.g. wake-up alarms) - Adds ‘Find my Phone’ functionality - Adds ‘Stand-up’ reminder - Adds ‘Progress’ running race estimates & HR run threshold - Adds new sport mode…umm…Rope Skipping - Adds customization of the widgets - Adds do-not-disturb mode - Improved music control touch controls (for controlling phone music - First Suunto watch using fully in-house algorithms, transitioned away from FirstBeat algorithms - Retains existing snorkeling depth gauge features, with existing 100m - 22mm industry standard strap (silicon strap included in the box) - Retains/has military durability specifications - Two model options: Titanium ($449/EUR) or Stainless steel ($549/EUR) - Sapphire crystal display on both models - Weight comes in at a claimed 69g for titanium, and 84g for stainless steel